{"id":12392,"date":"2011-09-28T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12392"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T17:55:03","slug":"fundraising-continues-for-famine-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/fundraising-continues-for-famine-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising continues for famine relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12393\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12393\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12393 \" title=\"Brock University students Sandra Boahene and Lydia Taiba Appoh at a concert raising money for East African famine relief\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/africafundraiser.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Boahene and Lydia Taiba Appoh\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ghanamma Cultural Troupe performed three numbers at the Band Aide concert for East African famine relief. The dancers are, from left, Sandra Boahene, a third-year Accounting student, and Lydia Taiba Appoh, a first-year biochemistry student.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fundraising for East African famine relief continued today with a noon-hour concert in the Sean O\u2019 Sullivan Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Students and faculty took the stage for Band Aide, a show that raised money for the joint Brock\/Niagara College campaign called \u201cEast African Famine \u2014 Feed a Mouth, Save a Life \u2014 Niagara Responds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanamma Cultural Troupe, comprised of Brock students, performed a trio of dance numbers. Other performances included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karin Di Bella, associate professor of Music, on piano<\/li>\n<li>Music associate professor Harris Loewen and Business professor Don Cyr playing songs from the Beatles<\/li>\n<li>graduate student Antje Thamm on violin<\/li>\n<li>Echo Yu on the Hulusi<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Singer on the piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The campaign benefits East Africa, which is in the throes of a famine that has affected 13 million people and killed thousands. In Somalia, nearly 750,000 are at risk of starving to death. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/27\/140849079\/exacerbated-by-conflict-somalia-famine-persists\" target=\"_blank\">NPR story<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>There are donation jars around campus, including a jar at the Tim Horton&#8217;s in the Schmon Tower. You can also donate online at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpforcharities.com\/humanitarian\/group\/profile.php?profile_id=382182271314988980\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara page of the Humanitarian Coalition site<\/a>. So far, Niagara&#8217;s online campaign has raised $5,089.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a fundraising hot dog sale at the Avondale across the street from the St. Catharines campus on Friday, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Other recent fundraising events include a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/news\/17499\" target=\"_blank\">Loonie Mile fundraiser<\/a> held by Brock International.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12395\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12395\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12395 \" title=\"Karin Di Bella performs songs by Franz Liszt and Lady Gaga at Brock University's Band Aide concert for East African famine relief\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/africafundraiser2.jpg\" alt=\"Karin Di Bella performs songs by Franz Liszt and Lady Gaga at Brock University's Band Aide concert for East African famine relief\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karin Di Bella performs songs by Franz Liszt and Lady Gaga.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12402\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12402\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12402 \" title=\"Sandra Boahene and Lydia Taiba Appoh\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/africafamine5.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Boahene and Lydia Taiba Appoh\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Boahene and Lydia Taiba Appoh<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundraising for East African famine relief continued today with a concert in the Sean O\u2019 Sullivan Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[159,16,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12392"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12398,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions\/12398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}